Item description: Resolution (approved on 30 July 1861) concerning the disposition of financial donations made to the Confederate States of America by Southern churches, as published in “The Statutes at Large of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America.”

RESOLUTIONS.

[No. 1.] A resolution to dispose of donations made by certain Churches on the late Fast Day.

July 30, 1861.

Appropriation of the fund received into the treasury from donations by churches.

Resolved by the Congress of the Confederate States of America, That the sum of five thousand two hundred and seventy-eight dollars and eighty-eight cents, reported by the Secretary of the Treasury as received into the Treasury from donations by churches, on the late fast day, be appropriated as a fund for the use of the soldiers and officers wounded at the late battle of Manassas; and that the same be disbursed and applied by the Secretary of the Treasury, with the concurrence of the Chairman of the Committee of this House.